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The Woke All-Star Challenge bracket is out
In case you missed it Friday while you were on the golf course, the bracket is out. Get a good look at it. Fill it out and prepare to get things started on Tuesday when March Madness starts in Dayton.
VOTING BEGINS TUESDAY.
• Paul B. writes:
This is an easy one for me. Until the finals that is. I'm up in the air on that still.
1. Joy Reid. I can't stand her. I have her upsetting Rex
2. Florio is such a loser he can't even be woke enough to win a woke challenge.
3. Brennan will upset Swoopes. I don't think it's much of an upset and Swoopes is just starting her woke run. Next year watch out.
4. Deadspin looks to be a runaway freight train with this.
5. Popovich was woke before woke was a thing. I've NEVER liked that guy. As much as I dislike Kerr, Popovic was the OG and I can't stand him
So I have Deadspin vs Popovich in the final. I have a severe disdain for Popovich. I just don't know which way I'll vote.
Oh, by the way, I emailed Gunz and said that Tyson should be the official sponsor of the Woke Challenge since they decided to fire 1200 Americans. I just had a thought, what could be the opposite of the Woke Challenge? Nick Adams would have to be a 1 seed right?
Make sure you're reading OutKick's latest column - The Gripe Report with Matt Reigle
The Gripe Report column made it's official-official debut on Friday and it is off to a fast start. The first gripe is from a reader who thinks track and field doesn't need the triple-jump.
Go read it (after you're done with Screencaps).
I know what you're thinking here: But…but…but…these other OutKick guys are stealing your style of column where you ask readers to send in emails.
I'll say it again: If OutKick writers want a future in this business, they better be developing their own audiences. They better be finding their own Mike T. & Cindy Ts in Idaho. They better be developing their own relationships with their own versions of Travel Ball Hardo Chris B. in Houston.
The modern Internet writer has to do this job on a micro level one emailer at a time. One relationship at a time.
If you don't have a real, human audience in this game, you'll eventually have to find new employment. Those are just the facts.
Don't believe me? Go ask the website owners who were dependent on Google search traffic who just watched their businesses implode over the last 10 days when Google deployed its latest algorithm update. The traffic is gone. There's not a legitimate audience to fall back on.
Now it's up to Reigle – a very good guy, soft-spoken, Pennsylvania native now living in Florida…email him, you'll find out -- to figure out how he's going to corral his audience and grow it. How bad does he want to stay employed in this Internet game? We're going to find out.
Now, speaking of building the audience, I have to pimp my own efforts around here
It took me longer than normal to find Eagles OL Landon Dickerson's address, but I did figure it out and I did send him TNML stickers on Friday. T-shirt Manager Olivia G. now needs to get the gear out to him when it finally hits the store.
Fingers crossed the TNML polo is for sale in the OutKick store by the end of the upcoming week. It could set sales records.
• Kevin in Toboso, OH writes:
Early to mow here but with temps, rain, tornados etc. the grass is ready to mow. Here is my problem. Knee surgery scheduled for Tuesday. Can I get a temporary exemption to mow Monday?
Not sure how many weeks I will be out and I am bummed. Got the old lawn boy tuned and ready to roll. It will be burning gas and spewing particulate matter (Breathe deeply libs). Early season schedule could be tricky. So I am applying for the exemption.
On travel sports. Wondered if you had heard of the "Relative Age Effect". There have been studies on your birthday having more of an impact than your ability as far as making it. Pretty interesting stuff.
Kinsey:
Remember, it's the preseason! Like MLB guys getting in their reps down in Florida and Arizona, this is your time to get things right before Opening Day. If you need to mow on Monday this time of year, mow on Monday.
By the way, for the first several weeks of the year, I'll have to mow on Thursdays and Mondays to keep up with the growth until the turf settles in at 4".
• Scott in Victoria, MN writes:
Joe - I've been ready daily for a few months now... love it all! But I have an insurmountable problem that is keeping me from joining the TNML... that is our Men's Golf League day / night here at Deer Run GC in Victoria, MN! We have a group of 20-24 neighborhood guys with our own "league within a league" and we call ourselves The Band of Idiots (BOI)... and some of us are over-qualified!
Are there any special dispensations for guys like us that appreciate the fine art of proper lawn mowing and maintenance - yet have an equally important summer schedule conflict?
Kinsey:
Based on what I know about northern Michigan golf in the summer, you have plenty of daylight to mow until around 9:30, especially in June. Victoria, MN appears to be on the same latitude as Gaylord, MI where I golf late at night.
Scott, you have to decide how bad you want to get dialed in for the weekend. Are you guys playing 18 after work? Is the 19th hole a three-hour marathon?
One thing Scott didn't include is how long it takes him to mow. That would've helped. If he's mowing three acres, I get his problem. If he's mowing a half-acre, I need Scott to look in the mirror and decide how he can fit it all in on those long Minnesota summer evenings.
• Brian in Parker, Colorado writes:
Gonna be a minute before I get to any striping... Spring snow in Colorado yesterday...
Kinsey:
Great photo. Brian's getting a sticker.
This is a piece of art from The Players
• Michael F. in Ponte Vedra keeps telling me I need to get down there for The Players:
16th fairway TPC Sawgrass with sun setting over the famous 17th island green in the background.
Kinsey:
How didn Michael get that photo when the course appears to be closed? I don't ask, but I'll say it again, Screencaps readers have their ways. They have their access.
Do you want to live like this?
Musk's algorithm keeps pumping these housing development tweets into my feed and all I keep thinking is that I want nothing to do with being forced to share a single front yard with the rest of the neighborhood.
Earlier in the week, there was a video where a woman walks through a master bedroom and onto a balcony where she takes a seat and acts like she's found paradise. Meanwhile, it's a Columbus, OH housing development where the houses don't have backyards. There's a strip of grass out front, fire pits and people are supposed to congregate and life is supposed to be filled with bliss and suburbanites living as one.
Have at it.
I wouldn't last five minutes hanging around fake elites like Hayden here. "I love transit, Adele, ABBA," his Twitter bio reads.
Hard pass.
How long would you survive in this hell? Keep in mind, these homes run in the $800k to $1.2M range. The two-bedroom condos are $500k. Whole Foods is a three-mile drive.
Now, if you hate mowing, if you hate enjoying listening to birds chirp on your patio, if you hate trees blowing in the wind on a beautiful June afternoon, if you hate the peace and quiet of a Sunday morning on your patio without worrying about the hustle and bustle of life passing you by, these developments are perfect for you.
Look at that backyard! It's an alley…no grass! No trees!
(Quarry Trails, Columbus, Ohio / Google Maps)
Old-fashioned American manpower getting the job done
• Speaking of Mike T. and Cindy T., Mike wants to tell us about red-blooded Americans getting the job done:
A couple of weeks ago or so, you asked about hard working Americans that get it done.
Yesterday, we had a tree service in to trim one of our Birch trees and grind a stump from a tree that spit this winter.
Before, during and after pictures.
Awesome work,4 working Americans!
Chandlers tree service, Boise, Idaho
The Colorado Meat-In
• Steve B. in Grand Junction, CO writes:
Alot of us in Colorado try to inverse all of our Governor's decisions. His "Meat Out" day is the Streisand effect in full force.
Here locally, the "Mesa County Cattleman's Meat In Day" is tomorrow at the fairgrounds and they provide free hamburgers.
Since my wife comes from a long time cattle ranching family, attending the first meat-in day at a local steakhouse during the pandemic was a no-brainer. The place was packed.
• Jeff B. in Colorado writes:
Can confirm that Meat-In was a huge trend in Colorado back in 2021. Beef ranching is a huge industry in Colorado, and took a MASSIVE hit during the 'Rona. Out governor caved to his husband, an animal rights nutcase, and the call to not eat meat for a day was about as tone deaf as I've seen.
So Meat-In became a thing, and spontaneous events popped up. The next town over from me invited everyone in the town to bring their grill to the city park, and some 400 grills were fired up at once, cooking everything you can imagine. Well, everything EXCEPT vegetables, that is.
Our normal weekend brewery crowd decided to have a potluck with nothing but meats... We had big Italian meatballs, sirloin strips, venison summer sausage, bratwursts, duck and bacon jalapeno poppers, and I put 3 dozen wings on the smoker. Paired with excellent beer, it was a most excellent way to flip our governor the proverbial middle finger.
Dawg fan Sam is on the move again…he went from NOLA, to Romania and now he's in far northern Michigan
Sam promises me he's not a CIA operative.
• Sam writes:
Your narrative is much better than the truth.
But I can honestly say that I do travel to different places to fix problems.
This week: Marquette, Michigan.
- Beef noodle soup at Teriyaki Bowl.
- Roast beef debris, ham, red eye gravy, and cheddar Po-Boy at Lagniappe Cajun Creole Eatery.
- Pay phones at the MQT airport?!?
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Now that's a Saturday morning! PACKED! Great emails. Readers have their heads on a swivel and it shows. I'm incredibly proud over how many of you sent me mowing content this week. We own that topic. There's not another website on the Internet who can even think of what we've built in the mowing world.
I'm off to work the rec ball evaluations. I'm running one of the stations.
After that, I might force Mrs. Screencaps to take me to a bar to watch March Madness.
Let's go have ourselves a weekend. Take care.
Email: joekinsey@gmail.com